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Jan 30
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PEL Presents Closereads: Hegel's "Unhapp...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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We're within the Self-Consciousness chapter of The Phenomenology of Spirit, specifically starting at sec. 206 on the Unhappy Consciousness. This comes after the famous Master-Slave section as well as sections about Stoicism and Skepticism, and it depicts a dividedness within the self stemming from a faulty view of the relation between self and world.

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